Signage Manager

Software User Manual

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Contents
1. Overview
1.1 Content management Overview.................................................... 1
2. Installation
2.1 Minimum system requirements..................................................... 2
2.2 Setup process............................................................................... 2
3. UI Overview
3.1 Main Menu..................................................................................... 3
3.2 Template List................................................................................. 3
3.3 Presentation Editor........................................................................ 4
3.4 Schedule Editor............................................................................. 5
3.5 Event Editor................................................................................... 5
3.6 User Operation Flow..................................................................... 6
4. Basic Operations
4.1 Create Playlist............................................................................... 7
4.1.1 Create Playlist........................................................................................7
4.1.2 Edit from existing playlist........................................................................8
4.1.3 Duplicate existing playlist.......................................................................8
4.2 Edit Presentation........................................................................... 9
4.2.1 Add looping playback media items by drag and drop............................9
4.2.2 Add looping playback media items from panel.......................................9
4.2.3 Edit image............................................................................................10
4.2.4 Edit video.............................................................................................12
4.2.5 Edit PowerPoint file..............................................................................13
4.2.6 Edit Logo..............................................................................................14
4.2.7 Edit Widget...........................................................................................14
4.2.8 Adding Ticker.......................................................................................15
4.2.9 Edit text................................................................................................17
4.2.10 Switch theme and Toggle logo display...............................................18
4.2.11 Adding background music..................................................................18
4.2.12 Switch between presentations...........................................................18
4.3 Edit Schedule.............................................................................. 19
4.3.1 Edit text................................................................................................19
4.3.2 Edit weekly schedule............................................................................20
4.3.3 Edit monthly schedule..........................................................................20

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 4.3.4 Edit schedule for a specific period.......................................................20
4.3.5 Add presentations to an event ............................................................20
4.3.6 Schedule priority .................................................................................21
4.3.7 Add presentations to an event ............................................................22
4.3.8 Duplicate a presentation to an event ...................................................24
4.3.9 Duplicate an event ..............................................................................24
4.3.10 Adding trigger event...........................................................................25
4.4 Export Playlist.............................................................................. 26
4.4.1 Export playlist via USB.........................................................................26
4.4.2 Export playlist via Network ..................................................................26
4.4.3 Player association................................................................................28
4.5 Firmware Update......................................................................... 29
Other Information
Customer Support............................................................................. 30

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1. Overview
Welcome to Signage Manager, an easy and simple way to manage digital signage
content for ViewSonic digital signage media players. The Signage Manager software
is designed to be easy to use by leveraging the power of your personal computer.
Anyone with basic computer skills can quickly create or modify content playback
schedules, using Signage Manager to deliver the right message to the right audience
at the right times.

1.1 Content management Overview

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2. Installation
2.1 Minimum system requirements
Windows Vista, 7 or 8 Operating System 2.6 GHz CPU
.DirectX 9 2 GB of system memory
.NET Framework 4 20 GB hard drive space

2.2 Setup process

Run the installer and follow the step by step instructions. Close the installer to finish
installation.

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3. UI Overview
3.1 Main Menu
The main menu is composed of a list of existing playlists and a list of players
available for playlist assignment.
You can drag players into/out of a playlist to make it associated/ unassociated with
the playlist. Double click a playlist to edit it.
1 Tool bar
-Language option
-Help information
2 Playlist name field and
Playlist create button
3 List of existing Playlists
4 Playlist preview and info
5 The associated players
of the playlist
6 Player list
7 Player name, IP, status
8 Player IP field and
player search/add
button

3.2 Template List

Template list contains all the presentation templates available to start a new playlist.
1 Template filter
2 Available templates

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3.3 Presentation Editor
Presentation editor allows you to edit all the media content: text, pictures and video
in a presentation.
1 Volume control
2 Screen off control
3 Switch presentations
4 Expand/Hide tool menu
5 Editing zone
6 Zoom or Fit options
7 Change content
8 Confirm/Cancel change
9 Expand/Hide media list
10 Media list for this zone
11 Add more media files
12 Media information
Thumbnail
File name
Options

It also allows you to save the playlist, export the playlist to players/USB, or enter
schedule editor if you need to schedule the playback.
1 Back to Main menu
2 Edit Playlist Schedule
3 Save and export
4 Select export target
(player or USB)
5 Discard all changes
6 Editing zone

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3.4 Schedule Editor
Schedule Editor helps you create flexible playlist containing multiple presentations
which will play automatically according to pre-defined events (time slots).
1 Add event schedule
2 Existing events
3 Event information
Time slot
Event Day/Date
Event Type
4 Add new presentation
to current event
5 Existing presentations
in current event
6 Presentation
information
Thumbnail
Duration

3.5 Event Editor

Event Editor lets you define how and when you want the event to take place.

1 Name of the event

2 Event type
3 Recurrence type
4 Day picker for weekly event
5 Time slot
6 Day picker for monthly event
7 Day picker for specific day event

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3.6 User Operation Flow

Start Signage Manager

Already NO
have Create new
playlist? playlist

Yes

Select from existing playlist Select template

Edit
presentation

Add more
presentation
Edit
Schedule

Export to
Player

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4. Basic Operations
4.1 Create Playlist
4.1.1 Create Playlist
1. Input a playlist name and then click “Create playlist”

2. Double click a template to make your selection

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4.1.2 Edit from existing playlist
Double click on an existing playlist to edit.

4.1.3 Duplicate existing playlist

Click on Duplicate button of an existing playlist to copy the playlist.

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4.2 Edit Presentation
4.2.1 Add looping playback media items by drag and drop
Select a zone then simply drag and drop media from file explorer to the zone.

4.2.2 Add looping playback media items from panel

1. Select a region then expending the option panel.

2. Add new image/video/powerpoint/widget and edit their attributes.

Click to add more media to the zone

Click to add special media to the zone:

Widget
A/V input
Note: Drag and drop to change the playback order.

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4.2.3 Edit image
1. Move mouse around the template, editable area will be highlighted.
2. Click to start editing.

3. You can replace the default image, zoom-in/out and adjust the focus. Click
confirm when you are done.
Browse other media to replace it

Zoom-in/out
(Tip: mouse wheel also works)

Drag to change image focus

Confirm/Cancel

Configurable options Options

Duration Playback duration (seconds)
Display option Crop ( default option which allows user to
change focus freely )
Fit ( fit image inside the zone and maintain its
aspect ratio)
Stretch ( fill image inside the zone without
maintaining its aspect ratio)

Note: Use mouse wheel to quickly zoom-in/out.

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4. Playback duration and other options can be configured from Option dialog, to
launch the Option dialog:
• double click on media item
• click right mouse button and select Option.

Note: To select multiple items, click the first item, press and hold down the Ctrl key,
and then click the next item.

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4.2.4 Edit video
1. Add video files to a region, a video thumbnail will show in the region.
2. Choose to fit inside the region or stretch video to the region.

: Fit inside

: Stretch

Note: Only ONE zone is allowed to contain video files.

Note: Double click the video to preview the playback in Windows application.
Configurable options Options
Display Fit/Stretch

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4.2.5 Edit PowerPoint file
1. Add powerpoint file to a zone and click on the item to start editing.

2. Choose to fit inside the zone or stretch PowerPoint to the zone.

: Fit inside

: Stretch

Note: Export PowerPoint slides (in static only) if you have PowerPoint
2003/2007/2010/2013 installed in same computer.
Note: Double click the file to edit in PowerPoint
Configurable options Options
Display Fit/Stretch
Unspecified slide duration Playback duration for each slide (seconds)

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4.2.6 Edit Logo
1. Click on LOGO icon to edit LOGO (LOGO only supported in limited Templates).

2. You can replace the image, zoom-in/out and adjust the focus. Click confirm when
you are done.

4.2.7 Edit Widget

Add widget files to a region and click on the item to start editing.

Configurable options Options

Common Playback duration: seconds
Options Color: background color
foreColor: text color
Clock timeFormat : 12h/24h
Calendar timeFormat : 12h/24h
Align: right/center/left
Weather Cities: type city name listed in -
http://www.worldweatheronline.com/country.aspx
Scale : C/F
Key : worldweather online API Key
RSS Urls: RSS URL
Writing direction:Right to Left/Left to Right
Webpage URL: website URL

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4.2.8 Adding Ticker

Choose one of the empty templates to

use ticker
in the Tools panel, check Ticker to
enable it
Select a preferred ticker mode from one
of the options:
• Personal text:
to display text content from a .txt file
• Widget:
to display a widget in the ticker zone
(ex. RSS widget or custom widgets)

Configurable options Options

File Path to the .txt file
Duration Playback duration in seconds
Size The text size of the ticker
Available options: small/normal/large
Effect Transition effect of the ticker
Available options:
Static: no transition effect between lines
Crawl: ticker crawls from right to left
Scroll: ticker scrolls up
Background color Select ticker zone background color from color palette
Background opacity Level of transparency of the ticker background
Text color Select text color from color palette
Writing direction Left to right/Right to left

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After enabling the ticker, you can:
1. Change the location of the ticker to Bottom or Top
2. Adding more .txt file or widgets to the zone

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4.2.9 Edit text
1. Editable text will get highlighted with yellow box when hovering on it. Click the
text to start editing.

2. Expand option to change font type, size and color.

3. If the text belongs to a text group, changing its style would affect on all text in the
same group.

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4.2.10 Switch theme and Toggle logo display
Expand Tools panel to toggle logo display and choose a different color theme.
Toggle Logo
display

Change color theme

in one click

4.2.11 Adding background music

Background music only works with image/PowerPoint presentation. If presentation
contains video, an information message will show up to ask user to remove video
from presentation before adding background music.

Toggle
background
music

Click edit to open music

playlist menu to add/remove
background music

4.2.12 Switch between presentations

If more than one presentation exist in same event schedule, switching between
presentations can be done by the switch as shown below.

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4.3 Edit Schedule
Click Edit schedule to enter schedule editor.

4.3.1 Edit text

1. Click Add event schedule
2. Edit the event schedule
3. Select template
4. Edit the newly added presentation

1. Specify event name

2. Choose an event type
• Presentation
• Screen off
3. Select recurrence type and the day
4. Select the playing period
• All day
• Specific time slot

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4.3.2 Edit weekly schedule
Check/uncheck the weekdays:

4.3.3 Edit monthly schedule

Enter days separated by comma “,” or period connected by dash “-“, for example: 1,
5, 9, 15-18 will play on 1st, 5th, 9th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th of each month.

4.3.4 Edit schedule for a specific period

Pick start and end day form the calendar

4.3.5 Add presentations to an event

1. Click Add presentation
2. Select template
3. Edit the newly added presentation

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4.3.6 Schedule priority
Default presentation

Monthly 1 Specific day(s) 1

Weekly 1

Monthly 2 Specific
day(s) 2
Weekly 2

Default presentation is the initial schedule which is defaulted to play 24/7.It has
lowest priority, will be surpass whenever there are overlapping with other schedule.
As shown on diagram above, specific day(s) event has the highest priority of
playback when schedules are overlapping, Monthly schedule has 2nd highest priority
then it's weekly schedule.
Among same recurrence type, newly added schedule takes higher priority ( e.g.
Weekly 2 is the newly added schedule )

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4.3.7 Add presentations to an event
1. Click Add presentation.

2. Select template.

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3. Edit the newly added presentation.

When looping presentation has more than 1 presentation, duration box will appear.
Click on Presentation duration number(300) to change duration, default duration is
300 seconds.

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4.3.8 Duplicate a presentation to an event

1. Right click a presentation and select "Duplicate to"

2. Select a destination:
- Current schedule
- An existing schedule
- New event schedule

4.3.9 Duplicate an event

1. Right click a schedule and select "Duplicate or click duplicate button of a

schedule"
2. Edit schedule of new event
3. Click OK to save new event

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4.3.10 Adding trigger event
Enable event trigger and add trigger to current presentation

Trigger Event lets you to add event trigger into presentation, the trigger source can
be touch button event and motion sensor event from ePoster, or input event from
GPIO board.
Trigger Event Editor

1 Name of the trigger event

2 Trigger type: simple trigger or motion sensor
3 Schedule up to 10 simple triggers
4 Advanced: control for simple trigger
5 Advanced: control button light effect
6 Advanced: option to disable interrupt for the trigger
7 Advanced: option to disable loop back to default presentation

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4.4 Export Playlist
4.4.1 Export playlist via USB
Click export button and click Export to USB, and then select the correct location for
export.

Note: Signage Manager will remember your action, so next time you only need to
click ‘Save’ to export.

4.4.2 Export playlist via Network

1. Click export button and click Export to player.

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2. Scan devices on your network or add them by typing their IPs.

Note: If a player is already associated with another playlist, it will not show in this list,
please search by its IP address.

3. Select devices for export.

4. After export, the selected players will be associated with this playlist.
5. Exporting status displays in main menu as well:

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4.4.3 Player association
After export, the players are associated with the playlist and will be listed under the
playlist in the main menu.
You can also assign player to playlist by dragging player and drop to playlist in the
main menu.

Associated players Drag and dropto add

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4.5 Firmware Update
1. Go to Help → Firmware update, select the Firmware package and click OK
2. Select the player you need to update.

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Other Information
Customer Support
For technical support or product service, see the table below or contact your reseller.
NOTE: You will need the product serial number.

T = Telephone
Country/Region Website Email
C = CHAT ONLINE
Australia AUS= 1800 880 818
www.viewsonic.com.au service@au.viewsonic.com
New Zealand NZ= 0800 008 822
T (Toll-Free)= 1-866-463-4775
Canada www.viewsonic.com service.ca@viewsonic.com
T (Toll)= 1-424-233-2533

Europe www.viewsoniceurope.com www.viewsoniceurope.com/uk/support/call-desk/

Hong Kong www.hk.viewsonic.com T= 852 3102 2900 service@hk.viewsonic.com

India www.in.viewsonic.com T= 1800 419 0959 service@in.viewsonic.com

Korea ap.viewsonic.com/kr/ T= 080 333 2131 service@kr.viewsonic.com

Latin America C= http://www.viewsonic.com/la/

www.viewsonic.com/la/ soporte@viewsonic.com
(Argentina) soporte/servicio-tecnico
Latin America C= http://www.viewsonic.com/la/
www.viewsonic.com/la/ soporte@viewsonic.com
(Chile) soporte/servicio-tecnico
Latin America C= http://www.viewsonic.com/la/
www.viewsonic.com/la/ soporte@viewsonic.com
(Columbia) soporte/servicio-tecnico
Latin America C= http://www.viewsonic.com/la/
www.viewsonic.com/la/ soporte@viewsonic.com
(Mexico) soporte/servicio-tecnico
Nexus Hightech Solutions, Cincinnati #40 Desp. 1 Col. De los Deportes Mexico D.F.
Tel: 55) 6547-6454 55)6547-6484
Other places please refer to http://www.viewsonic.com/la/soporte/servicio-tecnico#mexico
Latin America C= http://www.viewsonic.com/la/
www.viewsonic.com/la/ soporte@viewsonic.com
(Peru) soporte/servicio-tecnico

Macau www.hk.viewsonic.com T= 853 2870 0303 service@hk.viewsonic.com

Middle East ap.viewsonic.com/me/ Contact your reseller service@ap.viewsonic.com

T= 1-800-688-6688 (English)
Puerto Rico & service.us@viewsonic.com
www.viewsonic.com C = http://www.viewsonic.com/
Virgin Islands soporte@viewsonic.com
la/soporte/servicio-tecnico
Singapore/
Malaysia/ www.ap.viewsonic.com T= 65 6461 6044 service@sg.viewsonic.com
Thailand

South Africa ap.viewsonic.com/za/ Contact your reseller service@ap.viewsonic.com

T (Toll-Free)= 1-800-688-6688
United States www.viewsonic.com service.us@viewsonic.com
T (Toll)= 1-424-233-2530

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